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Markus00000

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Registered: 2011-03-27

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PulseAudio: Why does its daemon exit after idling 20s?

By default PulseAudio exits its daemon after 20 seconds of idle time:

# Terminate the daemon when idle and the specified number of seconds passed. 
; exit-idle-time = 20

1) Why is that?

2) After it exited, how do I automatically start PulseAudio again afterwards on demand?

3) Is it relevant for battery life? Or can I simply set exit-idle-time to "-1" and be done with it?

Thanks in advance!

ngoonee

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Re: PulseAudio: Why does its daemon exit after idling 20s?

1) To save battery, I believe (instead of holding the device open)
2) You shouldn't have to do anything, it'll autostart when requested
3) See 1)

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Markus00000

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Registered: 2011-03-27

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Re: PulseAudio: Why does its daemon exit after idling 20s?

2) You shouldn't have to do anything, it'll autostart when requested

Interesting. It does not auto-start for me. I am using xmonad, I am running dbus as a daemon (I suppose because the wiki told me) and I put "pulseaudio --start" in .xinitrc.

What am I missing?

Last edited by Markus00000 (2012-03-18 10:23:36)